UX Audit

A discipline that analyses the usability of an application by assessing its interaction design and user experience.

More terms you might want to know

Wireframe

A low-fidelity representation of a user interface design.

Breadcrumb Navigation

Typically used on the internet or web pages to provide easily accessible navigation for users. Typically, the breadcrumb navigation appears along the top of a webpage or at other locations on a webpage so that users can know where they are on a site quickly and efficiently.

Margin

The space that an item has around it.

Call to action (CTA / C2A)

An element that prompts viewers to take a desired course of action. This type of marketing technique is used by businesses and marketers to increase page visits or sales in a certain period.

User Interviews

The act of gathering qualitative data about a person's thoughts and feelings related to a product.

Design Debt

A concept used in systems design to describe the negative consequences of making seemingly innocuous design changes. Shorthand for a product's delayed but inevitable need to be reworked due to earlier, seemingly trivial decisions not having been fully thought through in the original release.

Designers incur this "debt" by making quick and easy choices that save time in the present but cause more complex problems later on down the road when it becomes necessary to change or add something.

Mock-up

A non-functional first draft of a design.

Kerning

The process of adjusting the spacing between individual letters to improve or avoid particular visual distortions.

Pilcrow

Also called a paragraph mark, a paragraph sign or section marker, is a typographical character for separating paragraphs. It looks like a "ΒΆ".

Sketching

A basic design tool that helps designers create and communicate ideas.

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